This qualitative study explored student affairs knowledge-sharing influences through Clark and Estes’s (2008) knowledge, motivation, and organizational (KMO) influence framework. The study was conducted at a 4-year higher education institution involving a diverse group of partic…
This study aims to investigate Saudi female academics' information behaviour (IB) within their work and everyday life contexts. A qualitative research approach was adopted to investigate the range of information behaviour that the research participants engaged in. The data for t…
This case study of the use of hospital accident and emergency records to safeguard children was triggered by Lord Laming’s inquiry into the care of Victoria Climbié, his follow up report, and government legislation since 1948. Research on the use of documentation for safeguardin…
The ability to control one’s own personally identifiable information is a worthwhile human right that is becoming increasingly vulnerable. However just as significant, if not more so, is the right to health. With increasing globalisation and threats of natural disasters and acts…
This thesis explores Centralised Demand Information Sharing (CDIS) in supply chains. CDIS is an information sharing approach where supply chain members forecast based on the downstream member’s demand. The Bullwhip Effect is a demand variance amplification phenomenon: as the dem…
The growing adoption of data communication has resulted in dramatically higher capacity and performance. Communications engineers have historically optimized Physical (Phy)/Medium Access Control (MAC) layers to increase aggregate network throughput. However, in recent years, res…
The Turkish National Police (TNP) peacekeeping officers experience poor knowledge-sharing practices before, during, and after their tours of duty at the United Nations (UN) field missions, thus causing knowledge loss. The study aims to reveal the current knowledge-sharing practi…
Canada is a nation governed by principles such as the rule of law and is built on democratic values such as those expressed in its Charter rights. In the last two decades, the need for enhanced national security to combat terrorism has been manifested where, the War on terror ha…
This dissertation contributes to the growing base of theory relating to Transnational Public Sector Knowledge Networks (TPSKNs) presented by Dawes, Gharawi, and Burke (2012). A case study explores the TPSKN formed between the United States Center for Disease Control and the Saud…
A surge of recent research suggests that current and future shifts in marine species' distributions are ultimately driven by physiological responses to environmental variation. These observations and predictions are important because changes in species' distributions cause ecolo…